The descent of man - and selection in relation to sex (1874) (20681454399)

Title: The descent of man : and selection in relation to sex

Identifier: descentofmanseledarw (find matches)

Year: 1874 (1870s)

Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

Subjects: Evolution; Natural selection; Heredity; Human beings

Publisher: New York : Merrill and Baker

Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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DECORATION. 383 curiously like those which we see in our fancy breeds, reared by man for the sake of ornament: certain individuals originally varied in one character, and other individuals of the same species in other characters; and these have been seized on by man and much augmented—as shown by the tail of the fantail-pigeon.

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Fig. 49. Spathura underwoodi, male and female (from Brehm). the hood of the jacobin, the beak and wattle of the carrier, and so forth. The sole difference between these cases is that in the one, the result is due to man's selection, whilst in the other, as with humming-birds, birds of paradise, &c., it is due to the selec- tion by the females of the more beautiful males. I will mention only one other bird, remarkable from the ex- treme contrast in color between the sexes, namely the famous

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